Re: VRML - anchor/inline

Brian Behlendorf ([email protected])
Wed, 5 Apr 1995 11:53:12 -0800 (PST)

On Wed, 5 Apr 1995, Neophytos Iacovou wrote:
> Looking over the the 1.0 draft, why are the following two nodes named
> the way they are:
> WWWAnchor
> WWWInline
>
> The draft says that they are "an arbitrary URL", so why WWW*? Anyone
> can make a URL, not just the WWW. Right now we have URLs for: Gopher,
> FTP, Telnet, Usenet, etc.
>
> Can't these nodes be called "URLAnchor" and "URLInline"? Isn't that a
> more accurate description of what they are?

The "World Wide Web", if Webster were to define it (ha!), would be "The set
of all representations of information and services which can be accessed by a
Universal Resource Locator". A WWW browser that didn't access gopher URL's
would be wrong. If WWWAnchor were termed "HTTPAnchor" then you'd have a
case, but WWWAnchor is pretty safe to use if it's attached to a URL.

Brian

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